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On a ragin' field of battle, in a dugout dark and cold
No full textSoldier lies dying. He says he will meet his sweetheart someday and asks comrades to send her a band of gold
One fine summer's evening I rambled alone
No full textMan meets Indian girl in foreign land. He returns home remembering her.Laws, NAB, (H8); Mercer: Leach, 1965:258, 259, (Little Mohee); Family Herald, 26/1/38; 22/10/41; 7/6/44; 5/11/47; 25/5/50, (The Little Mohee)
Way out in the far north country in a place called Irasome (?)
No full textMountie has to track down and kill his own brother, an outlaw.No references
I was married to a scoldin' wife not many months ago
No full textMan complains about wife's (nagging) behaviour."Ballads and Songs of Michigan", p. 432 ("A Scolding Wife"); Sharp, I, p. 267; Dean, p. 93 ("McCarthy's Widow"). Check Mercer: Burke & Oliver, 1900:40 "The Scolding Woman"
You sons of Cape Breton inclined for to roam
No full textFather leaves sons to go to America. Sons later try to find him. Father, a highwayman, kills one son while trying to rob him. He doesn't know his sons.Laws, ABBB, J12; Mercer: Greenleaf, p. 318; Leach, p. 110; Peacock, p. 812; Rickaby, p. 186
I did get sick and they taken me away
No full textMan in hospital laments loss of sweetheart, Mary Pilgrim, the pride of Hawke's Bay. Man knows the Ranger will take him in the Spring
Last night I was out rather late
No full textMan comes home from drinking, tells wife he was only down at the club
John Bull he had been an Englishman
No full textJohn Bull on tramp meets Paddy McGee (Irish) and Scotsman. They converse and sleep and dream tall-tale dreams
I'se the bye that builds the boat, and I'se the bye that sails her
No full textDitty - Newfoundland composition.Mercer: Bennett, p. 22; Blondahl, p. 40; Doyle (1955), p. 55; Doyle (1966), p. 28; Dunville, p. 76; English (1970), p. 59; Fowke (1973), p. 106; Fowke (1954), p. 116; Informal Music Service, p. 9; Mills, p. 20; Nolan, p. 6; Peacock, p. 64; "Newfoundland Fisherman", 7:1 (1958), 45; "Newfoundland Stories and Ballads", 8:2 (1962), 47